Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 城

Modern (Beijing) reading: chéng

Preclassic Old Chinese: d(h)eŋ

Classic Old Chinese: d(h)eŋ

Western Han Chinese: d(h)eŋ

Eastern Han Chinese: ʒ́(h)eŋ

Early Postclassic Chinese: ʒ́(h)eŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʒ́(h)eŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: ʒ́(h)eŋ

Middle Chinese: ʒ́eŋ

English meaning : city wall, fortified wall

Russian meaning[s]: 1) городская стена; обносить стеной; 2) город

Shuowen gloss: 以盛民也.從土成.成亦聲. [688]

Comments: Perhaps etymologically related to 停 *dhēŋ 'to stop' q.v.

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 32

Four-angle index: 6859

Karlgren code: 0818 e-g

Vietnamese reading: thành

Jianchuan Bai: cɛ̃7

Dali Bai: cer7

Bijiang Bai: ṭã7

Shijing occurrences: 7.1_, 31.1, 42.1, 53.3_

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